I'm a little scared to cut the bumper. If I just widen the holes, they will have a similar width to the old-style VR-4 bumper, which isn't bad. I'll decide when I mock it up again today
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I'm a little scared to cut the bumper. If I just widen the holes, they will have a similar width to the old-style VR-4 bumper, which isn't bad. I'll decide when I mock it up again today
Cut the bumper be a man!Quote:
Originally Posted by beam514
don't be an embarrassment to this hair:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._7396775_n.jpg
Dont be a wussy! Measure, measure again then Cut the bumper, Jimney Christmas!Quote:
Originally Posted by beam514
haha you guys are ridiculous
yeah I might end up cutting the bumper. Maybe some day I'll just mold this lip to the bumper, so it won't matter anyway lol
I cut my bumper for the lip and it worked great. Sat nice and flush until half of the lip went missing.
ah I forgot about that! did you get a new bumper? I'm talking cutting BIG holes for the air ducts lol
decided to cut the lip
Now I just need to heat the lip to mold it to the shape of the bumper. This might even take some screws underneath near the fog lights to help keep it's shape
Isn't that the Mugen lip?Quote:
Originally Posted by beam514
thats the spoon lip for an intergra
Whats the difference between spoon mugen n type R?
Hondatech, noob!Quote:
Originally Posted by Corey2kG
JK! haha! :)
nah you guys'd get hated on on a honda site for the replica lipsQuote:
Originally Posted by polishmafia
and iirc the real mugen/spoon lips don't look like that...or aren't even made for usdm front bumpers
I just checked ebay n saw the difference that hondatech website was useless.
All right, the lip is pretty much the shape of the bumper now, I just need to cut off the ends, bend them in, then screw it on. I've been tired all day though so I'm going to call it quits for the night I think
Pictures!
ask and you shall receive
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7025.jpg
cutting the air duct on the lip to fit under the bumper
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7027.jpg
what it looked like before final cuts and sanding
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...h_IMG_7028.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...h_IMG_7030.jpg
test fit
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7031.jpg
here you can see how close it is to the bumper
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7032.jpg
this is the original shape of the lip. It's pretty far off from the true shape of the bumper
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7033.jpg
after one round of heating and shaping
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7036.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7038.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7039.jpg
This is after pretty much finishing the driver's side
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7043.jpg
passenger side with a little more work to do
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7044.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7045.jpg
concrete blocks are your friends
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7046.jpg
The passenger side almost done. I did a little more heating and now it pretty much sits flush.
and of course, my weapon of choice:
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7037.jpg
Wow that came out pretty good alot cleaner then my little brothers mugen lip came out(Carlos 99galantES) lol. flows nicely. Great work. Now for the end result.
great job on the lip now for the final stage
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7047.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7048.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7050.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7052.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7054.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7057.jpg
almost looks like stock height! haha jk. The lip is held on with double sided tape on the sides of the bumper and in the lower grill in this pic. The double sided tape helped the lip keep its shape when I was folding the ends in. You can see that the fitment is pristine. With patience, you can pretty much mold this thing to exactly the shape of the bumper.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7058.jpg
This is one location where I screwed in the lip to make sure it's secure
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7061.jpg
edges folded in and screwed in
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7062.jpg
final fitment picture. awesome.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7065.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7068.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7070.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...s/IMG_7071.jpg
all done! I'm thinking about doing black sideskirts to match the front lip :)
looks perfect, i should pick up one myself
if you paint it black its gonna look like your missing something for the rear. unless you get your rear lip soon. go panda style lol
yeah I'm not going to do it soon. I'm leaving for college in like 4 days so it's going to have to wait. I do have those side skirts sitting in my closet though :) and hopefully some day I might pick up that Legnum rear lip that I told you about
so it sits lower then the bumper under the fogs by what about 2 inches the same as the mugen lip correct? how low does it hang under the bumper at the middle section beneath that lower grill? cuz the mugen is the same height around while this one is narrower in the middle but by how much.
I do kinda like the idea of mounting it higher and cutting into the bumper for those holes like a vr4 look.
needs more low, although from the pictures I don't think you need side skirts due to the fact that the lip seems to line up with the OEM sides, and anything you add will make the side of the car look lower, maybe I'm just crazy, although I do like the idea of black skirts if you go with that.
Looks awesome it sits "hella" flush lol. Great work!!!
Please don't say hellaflush. seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corey2kG
fixed:=]Quote:
Originally Posted by Corey2kG
saving up for coilovers :]Quote:
Originally Posted by greddy
and I already have some skirts sitting in my closet. They're the kind that VegasMatt has, so they're not super low/aggressive looking
The middle section sits about 1 or 2 inches below the bottom front of the bumper. In the rear it kind of slopes up. I would say the "scoops" are maybe 2-3 inches lower, and the sides are pretty much flush with the bottomQuote:
Originally Posted by Armageddon Sunset
LMAO thats why I put hella in quotes lol. That word is sooooo not Massachusetts word makes ya wanna throw up lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by E_Emerson88
so it sits about the same height as the mugen. being polyeurthane it as a bit of flex to it. so if you hit something at around 10-20mph it shouldnt bust. because it looks fairly plyable
my mugen lip was molded on and it is currently 75% missing from hitting random things. Ive been looking at a replacement and this might be it.
yeah, this thing was actually hard to cut sometimes since it was flexing so much. You could almost twist it like all the way around
thats good to hear, because i need something that can take a beating. I take some inclines to fast sometimes and would scrap the lip, it then started to crack and just fall off. I just need to slow down a bit.
Looks great! I say rock the black front lip til you get the money to paint the lip, skirts, & rear lip, then paint them body color. Or you could uave Cali wrap them in CF...
i got the bumper so your car can look like this. all you would need is the JM Auto Projector heads =]
Quote:
Originally Posted by SkylineG1
If you bought this grille it would match ur hood nicely:
https://www.thegalantcenter.org/showthread.php?t=43847
wow, almost a year since I edited the first post! I added some small things
Installed my HIDs today. Holy Visibility Batman! haha
and I absolutely love my CF hood. I thought I would be a color-matched kind of guy.. but I guess not. The CF patterns looks awesome in the light.
They are awesome aren't they
buy my bumper NOW!!!!! =]
Once you HID's, you'll never go back. Lol!
just an update:
I've spent enough on visual mods for the time being. Now is when I start transitioning back into performance. Today I ordered the Tactrix 2.0 so I can run the Diamante injectors (finally). We still have a couple months until summer, but I'm already excited for it.
Before this point I was scared to even look at EcuFlash as I knew nothing about coding. After this quarter's classes, I understand more about coding (though it might not exactly be relevant to this). In general though, I've learned a lot. I only worked with Matlab (if any of you know what that is) whereas all this stuff is hexadecimal. But I'll figure it out.
Anyway, for better updates regarding the performance side of this car, click on my sig and it'll take you to Galant Tuners.